hothouse

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hot=house

CIDE DICTIONARY

hothouse, n. 

•  A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.  [1913 Webster]
•  A bagnio, or bathing house.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A brothel; a bagnio.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
•  A heated room for drying green ware.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hothouse, n.
1 a heated building, usu. largely of glass, for rearing plants out of season or in a climate colder than is natural for them.
2 an environment that encourages the rapid growth or development of something.

THESAURUS

hothouse

babied, cloche, coddled, cold frame, conservatory, coolhouse, dainty, delicate, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, fragile, frail, glasshouse, greenhouse, hotbed, lathhouse, nursery, orangery, pampered, pinery, seedbed, sensitive, sheltered, shielded, spoiled, summerhouse

ROGET THESAURUS

hothouse

Workshop

N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.

Furnace

N furnace, stove, kiln, oven, cracker, hearth, focus, combustion chamber, athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory, volcano, forge, fiery furnace, limekiln, Dutch oven, tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan, boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot, urn, kettle, chafing-dish, retort, crucible, alembic, still, waffle irons, muffle furnace, induction furnace, electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat, open-hearth furnace, fireplace, gas fireplace, coal fire, wood fire, fire-dog, fire- irons, grate, range, kitchener, caboose, camboose, poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet, andiron, gridiron, ashdrop, frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog, hearth, inglenook, oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove, pot-bellied stove, wood-burning stove, central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump, solar heat, convective heat, hothouse, bakehouse, washhouse, laundry, conservatory, sudatory, Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath, sauna, warm bath, vaporarium.